Intellectual vs Reasoning - What's the difference?
intellectual | reasoning | Synonyms |
Belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.
Endowed with intellect; having the power of understanding; having capacity for the higher forms of knowledge or thought; characterized by intelligence or mental capacity; as, an intellectual person.
Suitable for exercising the intellect; formed by, and existing for, the intellect alone; perceived by the intellect; as, intellectual employments.
Relating to the understanding; treating of the mind; as, intellectual philosophy, sometimes called "mental" philosophy.
(archaic, poetic) Spiritual.
* 1805 , William Wordsworth, The Prelude , Book II, lines 331-334 (eds. Jonathan Wordsworth, M. H. Abrams, & Stephen Gill, published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1979):
An intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters.
(archaic) The intellect or understanding; mental powers or faculties.
Action of the verb to reason .
The deduction of inferences or interpretations from premises; abstract thought; ratiocination.
As nouns the difference between intellectual and reasoning
is that intellectual is an intelligent, learned person, especially one who discourses about learned matters while reasoning is action of the verb to reason.As an adjective intellectual
is belonging to, or performed by, the intellect; mental or cognitive; as, intellectual powers, activities, etc.As a verb reasoning is
present participle of lang=en.intellectual
Alternative forms
* intellectuall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- I deem not profitless those fleeting moods / Of shadowy exultation; not for this, / That they are kindred to our purer mind / And intellectual life ...
